Brooklyn’s on fire. The intermittent pops of muzzle fire are drowned out as tank treads grind the asphalt down Washington Street toward the East River waterfront, where a 100-year-old carousel lays in ruin. As U.S. forces lay waste to the tourist spots and halal trucks in a deadly skirmish with …
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I t was after 3 a.m. on Nov. 6 last year, and nobody on the planet was happier than a balding, slender man standing near the reception desk of the Hilton West Palm Beach. Donald Trump had just finished hosting his 2024 election watch party at the adjacent Florida convention …
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America’s pro-democracy movement is gearing up for what may be its biggest mass demonstration yet against the increasingly militaristic Trump administration — which has sent armed troops to occupy the nation’s capital and is threatening to do the same in large cities from Chicago to New Orleans. Popular resistance in …
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The alumni association at West Point’s U.S. military Academy canceled a ceremony honoring Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, who is also a staunch advocate for veterans and supported Joe Biden during his presidential campaign against Donald Trump. “This decision allows the Academy to continue its focus on its core mission of …
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Blue-state governors are sounding the alarm that an increasingly “authoritarian” President Donald Trump has designs to disrupt upcoming elections with military assets. J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, is exhorting Americans to treat Trump’s stated goals for deploying the National Guard to blue cities like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and …
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Donald Trump is expanding his military intimidation campaigns against his enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump’s decision to destroy a purported drug boat from Venezuela, in international waters, is the latest escalation from a president who spent years conning his followers into believing he hates neocons and values “peace,” and is …
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office dismissed felony charges on Thursday against a man accused of threatening to kill Donald Trump. It’s one of several recent cases where grand juries have rejected the Trump administration’s charges in Washington, D.C., which have come amid his deployment of military personnel to the nation’s …
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As President Donald Trump threatens to deploy federal troops to Chicago in a continuation of his attempted power grab within prominent Democratic cities, a federal judge has ruled that his deployment of military personnel to Los Angeles in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act. On Tuesday, Northern District of California …
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HBO has acquired the rights to develop The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, an expose on lawlessness at the military base by Rolling Stone contributor Seth Harp, into a series after a heated bidding war. Over the course of five years, Harp investigated unsolved …
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A quarter mile from the White House, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington was once Abraham Lincoln’s place of worship. A black hitching pole where he would tie up the family carriage is still here. Lincoln would come here most Sundays during the Civil War, burying his …
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